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Re: Faster bus (133 Mhz)
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Jan Lambert <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:44:19 -0700
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In <[log in to unmask]>, on 06/26/99
   at 10:45 PM, Jun Qian <[log in to unmask]> said:

>My understanding now is, when the FBS is 133Mhz, AGP will run at
>66Mhz (2x)/133Mhz (4x), PCI will run 1/4 of FBS which is still
>33Mhz. am I right? or will there be 66Mhz PCI bus when Intel
>release new chip?
>J Qian

There is a (beta?) spec to expand PCI to 64 bits. This will be a
problem in notebooks due to space considerations, so i expect that
a clock upgrade will also be in the works. PCI was specified
before there was abundant silicon that would support 66MHz, but
AGP has opened that door.

jan lambert
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